Civil Rights Icon John Lewis: Snowden’s Actions In Line With Gandhi, Thoreau

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97. No it won't and what an ABSURD thing to say.

Lawyers will claw to get on this case--it will either change or settle law in a major way.

And they'll get fame and wealth as a consequence, particularly if they shake up the status quo and actually CHANGE law--and that could happen.

What uncomfortable positions did Manning get put in, aside from handcuffs? He wasn't asked to do anything that any military personnel aren't expected to do. His isolation was for his protection, and his nudity was because he kept threatening to kill himself. When he stopped that, he got his clothes back. How dare they try to keep the guy alive!

Would you prefer he be given the instruments to end his own life, just so it wouldn't seem like anyone was "being mean" to him? Would you prefer he be flung out into the "general population" where his safety might be compromised, and he could end up dead, just so he can have a bit of idle chit chat?

Had he not downloaded reams of classified data while "rocking out to Lady Gaga" and handed it, unread, to Assange, he wouldn't be in that fix. He brought it all upon himself. He knows that, too, which is why he plead guilty to a number of the charges.